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Art by the sea winners
Angus Council reports that artistic youngsters used the sea as their inspiration at an art workshop at the Signal Tower Museum recently. At the workshop a group of six to 12 year olds, created maritime sculptures which were displayed within the museum over Seafest weekend.
http://www.angus.gov.uk/new/releases-archive/2011/2011-09-02b.html
Creativity at SLF 2011
There are just four weeks left to book your free place at this year’s Scottish Learning Festival and a quick search under Creativity shows you there is plenty of innovation and inspiration to take advantage of.
There are 25 seminars and 1 keynote speaker who make direct use of creativity in their work.
Sir John Jones has a reputation for straight talking, leadership and creativity and in his keynote entitled The Future Is Not What It Was he will argue that ‘Unless we are prepared to embrace change and champion innovation and creativity we may miss a huge opportunity to help create a world in which every child really does matter and none is left behind.’
You can register for SLF 2011 at the SLF website.
Young Filmmakers Competition – deadline this Friday
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival is a spectacular celebration of the art
of the moving image, and the largest film festival in the North East and
Scottish Borders, located in the border town of Berwick upon Tweed.
The Festival is set to return for a 7th time, Friday 23 ¬- Sunday 25
September 2011, spilling out of the Maltings Theatre and into various unique
architectural locations across the town during one action-packed weekend.
The Festival is now seeking submissions of short films and moving image
works made by young people under 19 to compete for the Chris Anderson Award
and a cash prize. The winning film will also be screened at the Leeds Young
People’s Film Festival ¬ one of the biggest film festivals in the UK for
young people. This competition commemorates the life of Chris Anderson who
was an active supporter of both the Festival and young filmmaking.
The Chris Anderson Award was launched in 2007 to encourage young people
involved in filmmaking and to identify promising new talent across the North
East and Scottish Borders. The award offers a cash prize which has kindly
been donated by the family of Chris Anderson – his widow Chrissie Anderson,
and his son Paul WS Anderson, director of Resident Evil and Alien Vs
Predator.
Selected films for the competition will be screened at The Maltings Theatre
on Saturday 24th September.
A young programming committee from the Festival Film Club at Berwick Youth
Project will select the programme of films that make up the final
competition programme.
“It was great to get selected for and win the Chris Anderson Award and have it screened at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. It made me and my friends feel very proud.” Chelsea Feeney (age 18) Beacon Hill Film Project, ‘The Pirate and the Mermaid’ Winning film 2010
“Getting a special mention was cool, it was great to have so many people enjoy my film” Abby Thomson (9) Director of ‘How to Make Friends’ Jury Special Mention 2010
For submission guidelines and entry form go to http://berwickfilm-artsfest.com/chris-anderson-award
Deadline for submissions is Friday 26th August 2011
Wanted: Films by Young People 1980-2000
This new project, which will run for four years, is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and runs in collaboration with the Scottish Screen Archive (part of the National Library of Scotland).
A major aspect of the project is to locate amateur video makers active between 1980-2000 and preserve and store some of the videos made during this period. The academic research team, based at the University of Glasgow, will investigate this video material to gain a unique insight into the lives of Scottish children in the twentieth century.
What kinds of video are we looking for?
It is our ambition to view material from a wide demographic of filmmakers (such as ethnic minority groups and different class backgrounds) and from a range of different locations across Scotland (the big cities, rural towns, the Highlands and Islands). The films /videos need not focus on children exclusively: the incidental appearance of children may be just as significant to our research. Please note: by ‘children’, a rule of thumb would be up to school leaving age (around 16).
Material we are hoping to discover:
Community videos produced between 1980 – 2000
Films/videos produced for educational projects, civic initiatives, promotional films for charities, possibly medical/public health films, and films/videos about/made in schools
Work produced by cine and video clubs, originally often screened for limited public exhibition (both fiction or non-fiction)
Films/videos produced by other kinds of community projects, such as drama groups
Work produced by children and others for children’s film festivals, or other public screenings
Material we are not looking for:
Home movies (i.e. films made privately by families) will be a marginal aspect of our research. If the films are unusual in either style or subject matter then we may be interested, but this kind of film will not be one of our main priorities
The Travelling Gallery Autumn exhibition – Waste Management
The Travelling Gallery Autumn 11 exhibition, Waste Management, brings together two contemporary artists, both with an interest in transforming the familiar.
Jonathan Owen and Charlie Hammond will show new work made for the Travelling Gallery, including a series of collaborative new screen prints which form the core of the installation.
Both artists have been known to change the appearance of objects around them and use dark humour and absurdity in their work. Because of this balance of contrasts and shared concerns, this promises to be a fascinating and playful exhibition.
We hope you can join us for the launch event of the exhibition at 6pm on Thursday 25thAugust at the City Art Centre, but there is also the opportunity to see the exhibition at the following venues during the Edinburgh Art Festival before the Travelling Gallery heads north –
Thursday 25th August City Art Centre 12noon – 6pm
Friday 26th August Modern Two (Dean Gallery) 10am – 6pm
Saturday 27th August Portobello High Street,
Outside the Bank of Scotland 11am – 6pm
Monday 29th August Hawes Promenade,
South Queensferry 11am – 5pm
Tuesday 30th August Edinburgh Park,
4 Lochside Place 11am – 6pm
Wednesday 31st August Craigmillar Community
Arts Centre 10:30am – 3:30pm
The exhibition will then tour to the following areas in the Travelling Gallery
6 – 10 September – Skye
12 – 23 September – Highlands
26 – 30 September – Aberdeenshire
4 – 8 October – Perth and Kinross
17 – 21 October – East Ayrshire
24 – 28 October – Scottish Borders
31 October – 4 November – Dumfries and Galloway
7 – 11 November – East Ayrshire
14 – 18 November – West Lothian
28 November – 2 December – Midlothian
5 – 9 December – Edinburgh
For daily information on locations and venues please visit our websitewww.travellinggallery.com or like us on facebook
Kilmarnock Pupils’ Fashion Show of Creativity
‘Nowhere to hide’ as Kilmarnock pupils rise to the challenge of school events
Pupils at St Joseph’s Academy in Kilmarnock showed off their talent as fashion designers when they presented dresses, head pieces and jewellery they had designed to their peers, families and teachers in June.
The fashion show, entitled “Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass”, saw each pupil make a contribution, from designing fashion or jewellery to providing entertainment to modelling outfits.
More than 100 “pieces of creativity” were shown to 250 guests at the event, which had taken more than a year to prepare. Items such as head pieces, scarves and masks covered curriculum areas and had to meet SQA standards, said Gillian Gabriel, principal teacher of art.
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6109349
Glow National Site refresh
With the new school term comes a new national site for Glow. It’s clean and fresh and there are a good few new resources and groups that users are sure to enjoy. We wanted a site that featured links for all users, so we’ve taken away some of the links that were just for staff and they can now be found in the national staff area, instead.
Glow TV will be a huge part of what we do in the coming year, so the new site features prominent links to both the full schedule and a monthly calendar, as well as a link to the schools’ channel page that explains how schools can get involved.
Glow Scotland blog: http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/
Scottish Learning Festival
The conference programme and registration for this year’s SLF are available on the SLF website. The programme has all the information you need to book your place at SLF 2011.
SLF 2011 is free to attend and has something for everyone involved in education, including:
- inspirational keynotes from Michael Russell MSP, the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning; Dr Ben Levin; Sir John Jones; and Dr Bill Maxwell, Transitional Chief Executive of Education Scotland
- lively round-table discussions on Assessment and Teacher Education – new for 2011
- conference programme with practitioner-led sessions
- the largest education exhibition in Scotland
- opportunities for discussion and networking with colleagues.
Visit the SLF website to browse the full programme of keynote and seminar presentations along with details of the range of additional activity at SLF 2011. Book now to guarantee your place at your first choice of sessions, as many sessions are already filling up.
Is It Creative? – Glow 5 day discussion around creativity and learning
Join us for this online event at any time during the next few days to contribute to a discussion around creativity and learning.
Daily challenges will give you an opportunity to explore Glow and the Creativity Portal and to see how you can make a Glow group and Glow tools work for you:
As well as exploring the Glow group in your own time, you can join us for scheduled activities via Glow Meet. The first two sessions (today and tomorrow) are an opportunity for you to drop in and try out the new Glow Meet tool – there’s no better way of learning how it works that playing around with it to see what it can do!
Today – Try it out – Glow Meet Drop In, 1000-1200
Tues 9 Aug – Glow Meet Drop In, 1000-1200
Tues 9 Aug – Exploring the Creativity Portal, 1300-1330
Wed 10 Aug – Is it Creative? – an online discussion, 1000-1100
Fri 12 Aug – The Creativity Portal Scavenger Hunt 1100-1130
Follow this link to find out more about Glow Meet and where you can find this weeks sessions on the Glow TV Channel:
Some FAQs
Q Do I need a web cam?
A A web cam is not essential but it is more fun if you do have one, as everyone can see you and it’s easier to join in discussions.
Q Does it matter which internet browser I use?
A Any browser should work, but if you have trouble just try another – Firefox, Internet Explorer etc
There are sure to be lots more questions that come out during the Glow Meets themselves.
